The main guns of the cruiser of 280 mm caliber could not deal with the battleships in thick armor, but they were the most suitable to deal with the destroyers of the Saar Empire with a displacement of more than 1,000 tons.

Soon more than a dozen cruisers of the Saar people also followed, and seeing that their own destroyers were at a loss, they also aimed their main guns at the cruiser fleet commanded by Gao Bo.

The battle between the small warships was raging, but the artillery battle of the battlefleet was already about to be decided. Although the four Shannan-class battleships were half less than the other party, their ship type was the same as the caliber of the artillery, and the impact point was more concentrated, which gave the Saar people greater damage, not to mention that the Shannan-class main guns had a larger caliber and a faster rate of fire, so they did not suffer in terms of the total amount of ammunition delivered.

After half an hour of artillery fighting, three battleships of the Sahr Navy had been sunk, while the losses of the four Shannan-class battleships were very slight, and the largest loss was only a bullet on the deck of the Tubo, and two secondary guns were destroyed, while the 356 mm shells of the Saar Navy still did not penetrate its armor.

Seeing that their small warships had been mixed up with the Sahr, in order to avoid accidental damage, the four Zhonghua-class battleships stopped shelling, and they began to speed up and outflank the Sahr battlefleet.

Vice Admiral Ocalan was concentrating on firing at the Shannan-class battleships, and the four Zhonghua-class battleships were inserted from their rear, and dozens of 305-millimeter guns were aimed at the Sandys, which was dragging at the end.

The Saar battlefleet was attacked from two sides, and Vice Admiral Ocalan immediately ordered the fleet to turn in the opposite direction, and when he saw that his own battleships could not sink the Shannan-class battleships, he knew that his defeat today was doomed. Now he plans to make one last effort, first get close to the Zhonghua-class battleships to attack, strive to sink these four battleships and then retreat, to find some face for his defeat, so that he can also escape the fate of court-martial.

The remaining five Sahr battleships made a 360-degree turn at the fastest speed under the fire of guns from both sides, and rushed straight towards the four Chinese-class battleships, and the four Chinese-class battleships did not give in, and the battlefleet facing the Sahr Navy also rushed forward.

The battleships of both sides staggered over a distance of four kilometers, and each battleship was firing desperately, tilting all its shells onto the hull of the opponent, and all the battleships were flying sparks and bursting into balls of smoke. Due to the proximity, the secondary guns of both sides played the greatest role, and the battleships of the Saar Empire suffered heavy casualties, and the Chinese-class battleships were also scarred, and the casualties were not small.

The Shannan-class battleships accelerated towards the battlefield, but the distant water did not quench their thirst, although both sides were scarred, the battleships of the Saar Empire had the upper hand because of their larger tonnage and thicker armor, and if they continued to shoot like this, the Chinese-class battleships would suffer very much and were likely to be sunk.

At that moment, there was a sudden buzzing sound in the sky, and for a moment it seemed as if the sky had darkened. More than a hundred aircraft of various kinds pierced through the clouds and began to hover above the naval battle area, and at the most critical moment, the carrier-based aircraft unit of the Wan Yong fleet finally arrived.

"Brothers, get to work." Chen Feng shouted loudly and rushed down the first, and behind him was a squadron of Swordfish attack aircraft. Chen Feng slapped the fuselage that had just been painted with three red stars, and excitedly lowered the altitude, and he aimed directly at Vice Admiral Ocalan's Intrepid battleship.

"Delivery." With Chen Feng's reminder, Qin Ze, who was sitting in the back seat, stared at the target in the scope, quickly pulled the throwing wrench, and the 450 mm caliber torpedo mounted under the belly of the machine broke away from the pylon and went straight into the water.

After sinking more than 60 meters, the torpedo began to float upward, and became horizontal at a position of nearly half a meter above the water surface, and then the electric motor at the rear of the torpedo was activated, and the propeller turned rapidly, pushing the torpedo forward quickly. The electric torpedo did not bubble out and was very stealthy, and it quickly crossed a distance of several kilometers at a speed of twenty-eight knots and crashed headlong into the bow side of the dreadnought.

A violent cloud of explosion rose up, and Vice Admiral Ocalan and one of his staff officers, who were standing on the bridge, were slammed to the ground with the force of the impact. "What's the matter, are we being attacked by submarines?" Lieutenant General Ocalan shouted as he got up.

"General, it's an attack by the Air Force, and the carrier-based aircraft of the Chinese Empire can actually launch torpedoes." A staff officer whose horn had been broken ignored the blood that had already flowed down to his chin, picked up a telescope and observed the growing number of attack planes outside and reported loudly.

The last time the port of Tunisia was attacked by the air force, although many warships were sunk by airborne torpedoes, because it was dark night, the Sahr people could not see the aircraft model clearly, they always thought that those torpedoes were mounted by land-based aircraft, because at their level, carrier-based aircraft have too many restrictions, and they are destined to be worse than land-based aircraft, and the Sahr people can't even carry land-based planes, let alone carrier-based aircraft.

"It's over, we're all done." Looking at the dense swarm of attack planes like flying locusts, Ocalan was completely desperate. After the Air Force joined the battle, the Southern Fleet of the Saar Empire lost the chance of final victory, and the torpedoes carried by more than 100 attack aircraft were not something that the Sahr warships could avoid, and one by one the Saar warships were quickly sunk, and the remaining cruisers and destroyers saw that there was no hope of escaping, so they had to raise the white flag.

The battle was over, and the warships of the Southern Ocean Fleet were busy caring for the wounded, rescuing the fallen Sahr sailors and keeping them under strict guard. In this battle, none of the southern fleets of the Saar Empire escaped the net, and none of them were able to report back, and those captured sailors were sent back to the empire.

Having dealt with the aftermath of the naval battle, the troop convoy protected by the aircraft carrier fleet gradually followed, and the two fleets regrouped again and headed for Cape Town. The planes were delayed, and Vice Admiral Delaya felt that something was wrong, calculating the fuel of his own planes, and if all his planes were shot down, then the opponent's aircraft carriers would be able to pull out and attack Vice Admiral Ocalan's battlefleet.

Thinking of this, Lieutenant General Draya couldn't help but shudder, if this really happened, the problem would be serious. Vice Admiral Draya couldn't sit still any longer, he immediately got up and went to arrange the land defense positions near the port of Cape Town, now the domestic forces are tight, and the home fleet has just fought a naval battle with the combined fleet of the Yaman Empire and the Boston Empire not long ago, the fleet has suffered heavy losses, and it is simply unable to rescue the southern colonies, and now the southern colonies can only rely on themselves, and there is no hope for foreign aid.

After a night of trembling, the fleet of the Chinese Empire finally arrived, when the morning light of the next day shone on the shorelines of the Saar people, and with the rising sun, a huge fleet appeared on the sea level.

"Start attacking." With Sun Xiaohu's order, the battleships turned one after another, and the huge main gun muzzles were raised high to the sky. There was a buzzing sound, and attack planes swept over the battleship and rushed straight towards the Sahr positions.

The 500-kilogram bombs rained down on the ground, blowing up the coastal batteries of the Sahr people, followed by shells of various calibers, and the coastal positions were in shambles. The Sahr colonial army endured a brutal full-coverage bombardment, watching the soldiers being blown to pieces, and the survivors could only hide in the trenches and shiver, praying that the attack would not fall on their heads.

At this time, a small boat with a peculiar shape of about 20 tons rushed towards the beachhead, the front of the boat was protected by a huge steel plate, not afraid of the light weapons on the shore at all, their speed was extremely fast, and there was no need to consider the problem of grounding, so they rushed straight onto the beach, these small boats are the new equipment of the Chinese Imperial Navy, a landing craft dedicated to amphibious operations.

The steel plate guard suddenly fell forward, forming a flat road in front of the landing craft, and the marines, who had been hiding behind the steel plates, swarmed out and rushed to the Saar position. The Sahr had never seen such a new equipment of the Chinese Empire, and they were somewhat caught off guard by such a close charge.

The Marines' numerous rapid-fire weapons opened fire together, and the Sahr could not lift their heads, and these ineffective colonial troops fired desperately with their old weapons in their hands, but they were quickly killed, and the entire coastal position was already in disarray.

The landed troops, divided into multiple arrows, quickly broke through the makeshift coastal defenses, and divided and surrounded the Saar colonial army that held here, and these soldiers, who did not have much will to fight, quickly surrendered and became prisoners of the marines.

The landing on the port of Cape Town went very smoothly, and the weapons of the Sahr colonial army were already very backward, far from their own regular army, not to mention the Chinese Imperial Army, which was more advanced in weapons and higher quality, under the sharp attack of the marines, most of the Saar colonial army surrendered, and only about a thousand troops, following the governor Campunan and the commander of the colonial army, Lieutenant General Delaya, hid in a stone fortress in the dense forest, and they intended to hold on here and continue to resist.

The Marines landed more and more, besieging the recalcitrant stone forts and clearing the remnants of the Saar army in Cape Town Harbour, while keeping all the Saar expatriates under their watchful eye to prevent any excesses.

The landing marines quickly surrounded the stone fort while towing both the chariots and artillery ashore, and Sun sent an ultimatum to Governor Campunan asking them to surrender within twenty-four hours.

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